Besides being important pollinators who ensure we have food, bees are true geniuses. They comprehend zero, regular numbers are a breeze for them, they can perform basic arithmetic, but bees can read numbers. Bill Andrews lays out a clever experiment, the importance of N and T, and how we can all learn something from the humblest of critters. In keeping with a section devoted to beloved articles from this past week, we have to laud Brent Swancer yet again for his collection of Eerie Accounts of Haunted Elevators. Many of these conveyances have a mind of their own, preferences for paricular floors in a building, perform their own muzak, and other high strangeness guaranteed to put The Overlook Hotel’s fabled blood-filled lifts to shame. (CS)

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